AMUSEMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 25 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

AMUSEMENTS.

LOCAL FIXTURES. HIS MAJESTY’S. February 5 to B—Pollard’s Opera Company. February 17, 18, and 19—J. C. (Vjlliamson’s “Blue Moon” Company. Alarcli 11 to 14—Brough Fleming Company. Alay 11, 12, 13—J. C. (Villiamson. June 8,9, 10—J. O. Williamson. August 12, 13, 14—Frank Thornton.

It is stated that Andrew Alack will return to Australia with a- new company and fresh pieces.

Miss Elizabeth Watson, a great favorite with Australian audiences, through her long connection with Air. Bland Holt’s company, is appearing in the production of “Caesar and Cleopatra,” at the London Savoy Theatre, as Gtfa-teeta, Cleopatra’s nurse.

The famous Adelphi drama, “The Harbor Lights,” has been revised and rewritten by Mr. G. It. Sims. So -also has “The English Rose.” Tho ilattor play was revived at Home on Boxing night, and on January 27 “The Harbor Lights,” -again appeared on the boards.

A combination got together by Air. 0. Blake, formerly of tlie AlacAlahon Dramatic Company, descended upon Nelson this week, but expectations in a pecuniary sense were scarcely realised. Scratch organisations of this kind, as a rule, reign briefly. Pattrons want the real “Alackay.”

Engagements contracted for by he Fuller firm include Air. Fred Graham and Aliss Nellie Dent, who are duo on its circuit for seventeen weeks, commencing from next month. At tlie conclusion of their New Zealand tour the couple wiill return to Sydney en route to England.

J. 0. Williamson made an offer to John Drew, the noted American actor, to visit Australia. Drew, however, who is at present appearing with Billy Bourke in “Aly Wife,” in New York; was unable to accept owing to the existence of contracts with Charles Froliman.

Amy Castles has returned to England after her three months’ tour of Germany ami other Continental lands. She has throughout been successful at her concerts in the great musical! centres, and had to refuse a. number of further engagements, on account of her' work in England, and her forthcoming season of opera at Monte Carlo. She was at latest on the Harrison tour of the great provincial cities of England and Scotland.

Miss Nance O’Neil has created the greatest sensation ever known in vaudeville in San Francisco, at the Orphoum Theatre. By special request, Miss Nance O’Neil has been playing the “Slcep-wnilking” scene from Macbeth, a role in which she was greatly appreciated in Australia. Signora Tetrazzini, the “new Patti,” whose English debut early in November created a tremendous stir in musical London, as described in those columns, scored another success at Covent Garden in "Lucia di Lammormoor.” Says a London paper: “Nothing like it has been seen before,” was the universal verdict. It is a significant fact that the price of the orchestra stalls bad been raised Ids for future performances of this opera. The mad scene was the moment the house waited for. It listened with breathless attention. Without any striving after effect, the new prima donna made one almost shiver with the realism of the portraiture of the demented girl, and yet the pity of it all was equally expressed. Then came the great florid cadenza with the flute. Never has such singing. such wonderful vocalisation, been heard in Covent Garden before. The house went frantic with delight.